The Real ID Card I think is a solution and a verification of reality about a US citizen and those opposed to it are those with something to hide? such as fraudelent identity? like illegal aliens trying to get over the system with bogus identification???!!! With the Illegal alien problem in the millions of illegals in this country that has been derelict in enforcing INS Immigration laws, this is a solution that will root out those who intentionally broke federal law in coming into the US deliberately with no regard except for their own selfish gain. I have no bleeding heart for anyone who becomes a leech against the taxpayer who has to subsidize them at the expense of their lives. Countries have laws and they enforce them; why not the US? In Germany as an example, one can come in on a tourist passport and stay for 90 days, and if they want to stay, have to go to a city hall where they want to live and register for a residence permit good for 1 year, and if they want to work, they must get a work permit with their employer to state that their employment does not compete with local citizens, or only this person can do the work. Those not complying will leave the country. There is no tolerance for what goes on in the US which is the way it should be. The Real ID is the best answer I know to make things right, and if states can't get it, they are part of the fraud problem as they are in fact abetting illegal aliens in violation of Federal law- prosecutable?

I'll leave it up to others to point out the obvious in the above post that highlights Germany as an example of doing things right, given the historical perspective of that country's use of ID and similarities to REAL ID. In the poster's defense, few have read the final REAL ID rules, which at its core are NOT about what they want states to do with their cards now, but is about the federal governments ability under this law to change the uses of the card, what is on the card, and the technology it uses (such as RFID) at ANY point in the future (as Chertoff points out himself, WITHOUT any more congressional oversight). If the State Department and DHS, the same departments that refuse to enforce current immigration and visa law, as well as trying to get away with only building "virtual" fences, got their act together and enforced current law, we would not even be talking about REAL ID. This law instead is only about one thing, and that is putting the federal government totally in charge of state drivers licenses going into the future. If they want a national ID card, they should at least have the guts to say so and to try to create one on their own. To blackmail the states into being complicit is a hypocrtical charade.

Real ID, is not a matter of wheather you have done anything wrong or to hide,innocent people
go to jail all the time. Real ID, is a way of manipulating and controlling people. When people are born and recieve a birth certificate and SSN#,was it free will and did they do anything wrong at the time of birth? When anilmals and people with Alzheimers get RFID chipped, did they do anything wrong? Many people these days will be willing to give up personal freedom and rights, just to keep their benefits. Read the scriptures in Revelation 13:16-18 and you will find that many will show their allegiance to an economic system that satan controls. What about money,power,and greed called world dominance? What about wars over the years, where innocent people died due to big government, and of course
little children must be hiding something. Real ID, violates privacy and the 4th & 10 Amendments.
Watch out for identity theft. This was prophicied
to be a "New World Order" stick to the agreement
of what ever world leaders want, and it will allow a person to stay into slavery and bondage.
If Real ID was such a great thing, notice how people born after 1964, are required to get it right away and after 50 years of age, not until 2017? That's because the leaders who passed public law 109-13 who were over age 50 could see the affects of what would happen to everyone else during identity theft and would have time to fix what was wrong later. True leaders who passed the Real ID,would have set an example of getting the Real ID first before the citizens.That sounds like a right hand half oath to me.Notice how RFID chips have proven to cause cancerous tumors and yet the people did nothing wrong, I wonder how much it would cost for surgery removal, along with synthetic medication cost? Notice how people never seem to get out of debt, that's because whoever controls the money controls the people,pay attention to the Elite,Builderburgs, and Freemasons, it is not different than the "Roman Empire" thousands of years ago. The time is coming when a person will have to choose between a Demonic One World goverment by receiving an implantable microchip just to keep thier benefits, or reject satan and turn to Jesus Christ.Many will take the chip just to avoid persecution.